Car or Train to Temporary place of work?

[Spacecadet]

I had a FC season ticket for Leeds - Manchester (Trans-Pennine), about 13 seats in all, you got one coffee and a biscuit and a share of a paper and more often than not the proles from SC took some FC seats cos SC was full....

Decided it wasn't worth it and took the Caldervale line via Halifax, and saved £150....

I was doing the same route but in the opposite direction.
What I found is that it's best to learn which trains run double length, then there is less chance of the proles ending up in first class, unless of course the train is only half the length it's supposed to be.

The larger seats, bigger tables (good when using a laptop), curtains and complimentary drink was nice. Plus use of the lounge at Leeds station if there were any delays.
Some of the eastern european girls working the trolley service weren't too bad looking either but they all seemed to disappear last Christmas.

[BS1397]

Its not the facilities you pay for, its being surrounded by people who can afford to pay more. These people behaviour better, you could say its a better class of people. Worth every penny.

The "First Class" is just 4 rows of normal seats at the end of the 1st, 4th, 5th & 8th and in the same carriages as the rest of SC. There is no Partitions, Privacy or WiFi like on some services (Virgin?), and certainly not enough seats for the 1st class ticket holders so they end up very unhappy sitting next to you in SC waving an ticket and cursing loudly over the mobile about the overcrowding, Oh my heart bleeds.

Quality?... Are you really saying that 95% of the commuters working in London are of substandard quality compared to your Elite 1st Class?

[SueEllen]

The "First Class" is just 4 rows of normal seats at the end of the 1st, 4th, 5th & 8th and in the same carriages as the rest of SC. There is no Partitions, Privacy or WiFi like on some services (Virgin?), and certainly not enough seats for the 1st class ticket holders so they end up very unhappy sitting next to you in SC waving an ticket and cursing loudly over the mobile about the overcrowding, Oh my heart bleeds.

What train company is this? And where is this?

The train companies I've used have first class carriages not rows. (When they have first class.) But they are on the longer routes.

Quality?... Are you really saying that 95% of the commuters working in London are of substandard quality compared to your Elite 1st Class?

There is no need for

First class travel I know varies around the country i.e. on London suburban services there is none because it doesn't make enough money but on longer distance trains to/from another large town/city to London there are carriages

[stek]

What train company is this? And where is this?

The train companies I've used have first class carriages not rows. (When they have first class.) But they are on the longer routes.

Trans-Pennine have the first (or last) third of the one (or two) carriage(s) in that format. Seats are 2+1 not 2+2 so a bit wider, and the only division is the door aisles so there's usually some prole stood near the automatic door sensor and the fecking thing is going 'whoosh, whoosh' like the Star-Trek doors on steroids....

Was £350 a mo LDS-PICC, £250 second, £200 on the Caldervale, SC only line